Cryptonym: HTAUTOMAT
Shane O'Sullivan, Dirty Tricks (1968) https://www.scribd.com/read/396763455/Dirty-Tricks-Nixon-Watergate-and-the-CIA
Re 1943-1970: "On August 31, 1970, James McCord retired from the CIA after nineteen years of service in the Office of Security. Born in 1924, his career began as an FBI Radio Operator in 1942, monitoring German and Soviet intelligence agencies. After wartime service in the Army Air Corps and a college degree in business administration, he graduated as an FBI special agent in 1948 and three years later, joined the CIA.¹ From 1955 to 1962, he served with Paul Gaynor’s Security Research Staff [SRS]— the counterintelligence arm of the Office of Security—becoming Gaynor’s deputy in May 1957. He reconstructed Soviet intelligence operations in Europe in the thirties and forties, developed and debriefed Soviet defectors, and was the case officer in several “double agent cases,” in which the Russians tried to recruit CIA personnel. From 1960 to 1962, he was also a case officer for three Cuban agents tasked with entering Cuban prisons where “three CIA staffers were being held” and obtaining “data and photographs concerning their layout and operation.” In January 1961, at the request of David Atlee Phillips, an employee in the Agency’s Cuban directorate (WH/4) began spying on his former high school classmate, Court Foster Wood. Wood had just returned from a three-week trip to Cuba with the Fair Play for Cuba Committee and “lauded Castro very highly.” On February 1, Phillips coordinated a counterintelligence operation against Wood with McCord at SRS, as Wood started a chapter of the FPCC (as Lee Harvey Oswald would do later in New Orleans).² From 1962 to 1964, McCord served in Frankfurt as chief of the Regional Security Support Staff, responsible for personnel and physical security, and audio counter-measures programs to protect European stations and bases from electronic surveillance...McCord re-joined the Office of Security as chief of the Technical Division in July 1965, developing “esoteric equipment”..." It could listen through walls and was considered a breakthrough.
https://www.cia.gov/library/readingroom/docs/CIA-RDP61S00750A000500090038-5.pdf
7/30/57 memo from Herbert Scoville, Assistant Director, Scientific Intelligence to Project Director: "As a result of the recent assignment of REDACTED on indefinite TDY (temporary duty) to NSA, this Office has decided on a realignment of responsibilities relative to OSI participation in Projects AQUATONE and HT AUTOMAT and wishes to make this a matter of record..."
7/14/58, Memorandum for the Record by R. C. Swendiman: "Based on information contained in Office of Security files, the Security Officer, HTAUTOMAT, has been advised there is no objection to granting a REDACTED Clearance to the Subject (James McCord) for access to information pertaining to Project HTAUTOMAT."
5/22/75 Memo by Charles W. Kane, Director of Security to Inspector General: "As of November, 1963, James Walter McCord, Jr., #52 049, was serving in Frankfurt, Germany, as Chief of the Agency Regional Security Support Staff. Mr. McCord was so assigned from June 1962 to June 1964.
Wayne Madsen, "The Almost Classified Guide to CIA Front Companies" (2017, p. 252.
"Perkin-Elmer (CIA contractor): Manufactured camera system for Project OXCART, the CIA's SR-71 program." Perkin-Elmer (CIA Front Company) Based in Norwalk, Connecticut. Manufactured camera system for project Oxcart, the CIA's SR-71 program and U-2 photography, Project AUTOMAT.
104-10123-10421: BIO DATA AND PHOTO OF JAMES W. MCCORD, JR
Worked in CIA Security Office in Washington DC from 1953-62. A newer version verifies he was in Germany in 1962-63: https://www.maryferrell.org/showDoc.html?docId=153820